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I assume you’re completely ok with other countries doing the same for their own self interest?
I.e. 9/11
Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
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#862I suggest reading the few south american comments in this thread hidden by the usual whatever Trump does vitriol fro EU/US commenters. r/venezuela is one placce to start. Very different tone there than the ill informed commenters here ( and I say that with detest for “that other site”) Hopefully the Venezuelan people will have a fighting change to restore their country now. Time will tell I suppose.
If by “restore their country” you mean “have their oil reserves taken by force without compensation”.
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#863So the US will be excluded from the SWIFT banking system? Heavy international sanctions will be put in place? Europe will send weapons and money to help Venezuela defend itself? No? Oh... just checking.
It would be fun to station a few French nukes on Greenland as a response :)
But probably the wise choice is doing nothing publicly. Behind the scenes stop buying US weapon systems.
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#864If you're ever confused by Don's actions, just remember: all he cares about is gaining more wealth (and power if possible). This was done to enrich Don and the oil barons who funded his campaign.
[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-exec...
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#865To steel-man and provide a more charitable interpretation of last night: 1. Maduro stole an election. He is not legitimately in power. Many other people in power, like the military and other political factions, opposed this and wants him removed. 2. These people quietly oust Maduro in the middle of the night. 3. With the tacit approval of these folks, the US arrests Maduro for previously indicted crimes. 4. The US bo…
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#866To steel-man and provide a more charitable interpretation of last night: 1. Maduro stole an election. He is not legitimately in power. Many other people in power, like the military and other political factions, opposed this and wants him removed. 2. These people quietly oust Maduro in the middle of the night. 3. With the tacit approval of these folks, the US arrests Maduro for previously indicted crimes. 4. The US bo…
If Maduro stole the election from someone else, and the US does not put that someone else in power, then what does that mean? If the US exercises their own decision making and judgement when installing someone in Maduro’s place and overrides or eclipses the will of the Venezuelan people, then how is this in support of democracy?
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#867A lot of Venezuelans are happy about it. Maduro is not good for Venezuela. The US should not be the decider of who stays in power on another country. The president should not have the power to apprehend a countries president IN THEIR COUNTRY without a process thats more than just "I really want it". The US is giving another clear message that it does not care about global order, just global control. We're back in the…
Whether Maduro was the legitimate president of Venezuela remains to be proved.
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#868looking through the comments one thing I find strange that no one has picked up on is that maduro had met the chinese hours before being captured. To me I think the initial plan was to just let the economy tank by blockading the economy, chinese stepped into help and trump goes nuclear and kidnaps the guy.
still pretty shocking that they wont hand over power to the party who won the election and plan on setting up a puppet state and steal the oil, does seem USA has become some despot country albeit with a large army.
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#869No surprise Pam Bondi can just use her Grok subscription to make an incitement appear out of thin air, but what jury is going to be fair and unbiased here? How are American citizens Maduro’s peers? How could a judge have jurisdiction over him?
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#870> "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition" How do you run a country without invading it or at least having a puppet regime already in place?
It’s wild to me that (at least for now) Trump has publicly repudiated the second (or first if one swings that way) place vote getter in last election as unqualified even after she brown nosed Trump hard. He apparently needs a bigger sycophant in charge like his cabinet members https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-03/nobel-win...